RANK 1- SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Durgapur has been chosen as the best city in the country among the other 63 cities in managing solid waste. The Durgapur Municipal Corporation(DMC) received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Excellence award in the “improvement in solid waste management” category recently. DMC has been rewarded as the best civic body in the country ahead of metropolitan cities in the category of successful implementation of solid waste management in 2007-08. Surely it is a matter of glory for West Bengal.The DMC had launched the Solid Waste management programme as a pilot project for ward no-22 of the civic body covering the posh 'City Centre' locality in the town in July 2006.Durgapur generates 250 metric tons of average bio-degradable and non-degradable waste everyday. The venture was taken up in association with the technical collaboration of USAID Fire, an USA based agency.